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Re: RFC/RFS: zerofree - zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-systems



On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
>  Zerofree finds the unallocated, non-zeroed blocks in an ext2 or ext3
>  file-system and fills them with zeroes. This is useful if the device on

How does zerofree avoid race conditions of something trying to use a block
it wil zero in the time window (<determine block is free>, <zero block>]?

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